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[Discuss] SSD drives vs. Mechanical drives



Bill Bogstad wrote:
> Power failure vs. forced power off.   Is there a difference from the
> prospective of an SSD?

Not really. Loss of power is loss of power regardless of the cause.

> Moving this conversation in a slightly different direction. Does 
> anybody know how to tell a generic SSD to go into a consistent state?

I don't think so, at least not with consumer grade kit. Enterprise grade
drives will either honor sync requests or have the batteries to ensure
that data is written properly in case of power loss. Consumer drives
don't have BBUs, and they lie about sync completion.

-- 
Rich P.



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